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...each of the distribution centers. Here in Coffeyville, the high walls are painted white, and the endless rows of stock shelves shine in fluorescent yellow--the better to see the billboard-size banners that festoon the aisles and walls. "Our vision," reads one, "is the world's most customer-centric company. The place where people come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online." Another banner floats above one of the aisles and lists the company's Six Core Values ("customer obsession, ownership, bias for action, frugality, high hiring bar and innovation"). It's like the Cultural...
...Neill edict: "All politics is local." In Dubya's case, as local as your PC. On Monday, the Bush camp announced that it will be targeting web sites likely to be used by GOP primary voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, and in the coming weeks will festoon them with banner ads. GOP rival John McCain previously experimented with banners, but not at the same level of marketing sophistication - Bush's people cross-referenced lists of registered Republican and Independent voters with lists of users of various web sites. A web surfer who, for example, clicks on the Nashua...
...this helium weren't enough, Brown had the good fortune to be evicted from her preferred launch-party site by New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani when he learned that Hillary, his Senate rival, would be on Talk's cover (and not because party givers had planned to festoon the Brooklyn Navy Yard with thousands of condoms featuring the Talk logo). Undaunted, Brown went higher in the pantheon of landmarks and nailed down the Statue of Liberty. The buzz intensified when a prepublication parody on the Internet swept through the chattering classes, promising pieces about "celebrities who have died but still...
Walk through the doors of Warehouse No. 2 at 701 East 37th Street in Wichita, Kans., on a weekday morning, and you will swear you have entered a school. Parent sign-up sheets festoon the walls. A small library offers comfy chairs and a plentiful supply of magazines. Basketballs bounce in the distance, and a poster next to the weight room illustrates the "6 S's of Fitness" (strength, stamina, speed, suppleness, skill, spirit). The kids racing down the linoleum hallway take Spanish, art, p.e. and government here. They hit baseballs from the pitching machine, and they splash...
Central Africa's military messiah is accompanied by a bizarre band of apostles. Many of Kabila's soldiers are clad in rubber Wellington boots, and their uniforms are gleaned from several different armies. Until recently, they were assisted by Mai-Mai tribesmen, who smoke marijuana, worship water and festoon themselves with bathroom fixtures--mainly faucets and hoses--in the belief that these fetishes will aid them in battle. For the moment, the rebel leader has established his headquarters in Mobutu's former home in Goma. He has dubbed his new residence "the Museum of Shame" because its ostentatious decor mirrors...